[pic] BP Case Study November 10‚ 2011 Professor: Steven Lee Strategic Management Mississippi College British Petroleum[pic] Executive Summary The history of BP was set in motion as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in Persia in 1901. William Knox D’Arcy‚ an English entrepreneur hired George Reynolds‚ a geologist and explorer to dig Persia for oil. Reynolds could smell natural gas and was most certain they would hit oil
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Executive Summary There are different types of contracts bilateral‚ unilateral‚ expressed and implied-in-fact. What are the four elements of a valid contract? These elements required for a valid contract consists of; a meeting of the minds between the parties‚ consideration‚ an agreement to enter into the contract and legal competence of each party. (Allbusiness.com‚ 2007) A meeting of the minds between the parties is where both parties agree on what is being sold‚ purchased or traded. Consideration
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The Brewster-Seaview Landscaping Co. Part 1 During the summer of my freshman year in college‚ I worked for a small private landscaping company planting shrubs‚ seeding new lawns‚ cutting grass‚ and tending flower gardens. The company was located in my hometown of Seaview‚ N.J.‚ which is a rural community on the coast about 80 miles from Philadelphia. The company was owned and run by Joe Brewster‚ a 45-year-old man who had lived in Seaview all his life. He had started the company some years ago and
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Technology Solution to a Business Problem Subject of Course Project Advanced technology is proved to be beneficial for organizations and business more than ever before‚ it helped in bringing business close. It assisted in each and every aspect of business from making team of best employees‚ to booking order‚ delivery of products and their support. We need to use advanced technology in order to help business needs of an organization or use specific technology to solve a business related issue
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productivity and pollution of living spaces and water resources. Washing hands with soap is one of the most cost-effective health measures to prevent diarrhea‚ the second biggest killer of children in India. Proper handwashing can red= diarrheal cases by 47 per cent and acute respiratory illness by 30 per cent. This campaign highlights the need to wash hands with soap before meals and after defecation. Human excreta is the essence of the sanitation challenge. One gram of faeces can contain 10
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Having the impact of learning new ways to think to understand someone who has executive function disorder‚ this disorder is described as the cognitive processes that govern most of what your child does on a daily basis being impacted‚ it is hard for me to stand by and watch as my sister is a victim of personal trouble vs. public or structural issues: personal problems that happen in a patterned way to a large number of individuals end up being public issues or consequences of social structures‚ making
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Fife Solutions Goals Goals are set to help define the direction an organisation expects to go over a period of time. These goals are the reason for the organisations existence and express the expectation and desire of an organisation. These are split into three differing types: Consumer - the output produced serves the desired market and the satisfaction of the consumer ‘Justyna’s belief that a happy customer is a priority’. This provides evidence of the company’s goal aimed towards a specific
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Executive Summary (Revamped) This consultant report relates to CanGo’s attempt to explorer new business outcomes to increase the capacity of the organization throughout the electronic gaming industry which is rapidly growing much larger. According to‚ market research and analysis firm DFC Intelligence expects global games industry revenues to rise from $60.4 billion in 2009 to $70.1 billion in 2015. The importance’s of our consultant firm are to analysis and make recommendation to increase revenues
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Case Analysis: Sub-Continental Telecommunications Solution Problem Identification World Wide Telecommunications (WWT) attempted a joint venture with an Indian firm‚ a Subcontinental Software Solutions (SSS). This joint venture (JV) caused several symptoms; equipment difficulties‚ a sexual harassment‚ revised budget‚ and an intellectual property stealing. The problem was the failure of risk management and it resulted in the delays in finishing the software. The initial symptom of the delays
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Travels of a t-shirt in the global economy In the United States‚ consumers are constantly purchasing items from foreign countries without acknowledging where‚ how‚ and when it is produced. In my reading‚ the book “Travels of a t-shirt in the global economy: An economist examines the markets‚ power and politics of world trade” author Pietra Rivoli explains many difficulties in the production of her t-shirt. The production has conflicts such as the global tensions from states‚ markets and social actors
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